Murder And Crime County Durham

Author : Paul Heslop
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780752494340

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County Durham Murder & Crime by Paul Heslop Pdf

This collection brings together thirteen criminal cases from County Durham’s past that shocked not only the county but also made headline news across the country.Cases featured here include the murder of PC William Smith, who was stoned to death at Butterknowle; the shooting of Superintendent Joseph Scott at Durham by a former colleague; a robbery and murder at Ferryhill, when bank clerk William Byland Abbey was stabbed to death; and the case of Charles Conlin, who killed his grandparents and buried them in a shallow grave at Norton-on-Tees.Paul Heslop’s well-illustrated and enthralling text will appeal to everyone interested in true crime and the shadier side of County Durham’s past.

Author : Darrell S. Nixon
Publisher : Darrell S. Nixon
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Demonic County Durham: Axe Murder in Ferry-Hill near Durham, 1682 by Darrell S. Nixon Pdf

“25th January 1682(3). A sad cruel murther comitted by a boy about eighteen or nineteen years of age, nere Ferryhill, nere Durham, being Thursday, at night….” Over 300 years ago, Ferryhill, an obscure town in the south of County Durham, played host to one of the most horrid and tragic murders in the county’s history. A farm servant murdered the three children of his master in cold blood with an axe. It was described in a London print as the “most horrid and barbarous murder that ever was heard of in the North or elsewhere”. There was no motive for the crime, and nothing in the murderer’s character to suggest that such an event could take place, and yet in his later confession, the perpetrator said that he acted only on the “suggestion of the enemy” – The Devil. For the first time since the murders, all of the evidence leading up to, at the time of, and after the event is collected together as one of the most intriguing investigations into this sad and macabre event, and lays bare some interesting information that have never been known to the public before. Did the Devil come to Ferryhill? Read on, if you dare…

Author : Nigel Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0955163501

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Tough Times and Grisly Crimes by Nigel Green Pdf

Presents a history of crimes and individual criminals, from Northumberland and Durham county, from around 1700 to 1945.

Author : John Van der Kiste
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781445627977

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Durham Murders & Misdemeanours by John Van der Kiste Pdf

Nineteenth century crime and punishment in Durham.

Author : Helen Cox
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781529410358

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Death Awaits in Durham by Helen Cox Pdf

A page-turning cosy mystery set in Durham, for fans of Faith Martin and Betty Rowlands. Meet Kitt Hartley: librarian, no-nonsense Yorkshirewoman ... detective? 'Fabulous!' ***** 'Brilliant ... a smashing holiday read' ***** ********** When librarian and budding private investigator Kitt Hartley visits her ex-assistant Grace Edwards in Durham, she soon learns of an unsolved murder. A year ago Jodie Perkins, a Mechanics student, disappeared after her student-radio broadcast was cut short with a deafening scream. The police suspect Jodie was murdered although her body was never found. Keen to be on the front line of one of Kitt's investigations, Grace convinces Kit to use her recent private investigator training to solve the mystery. Can Kitt and Grace uncover the truth? ********** 'With eccentric characters and an intricate plot, this new series set in York is one to get your teeth into' Candis ''Brilliantly funny and charming' Northern Life

Author : Maureen Anderson
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781783037834

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Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Durham by Maureen Anderson Pdf

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Durham spans four centuries, with over fifty terrible tales of man's inhumanity to man, which are related in the pages of this book. In the early centuries superstition and ignorance were often the means by which justice was meted out. If it was believed that a crime had taken place, a person could be tried, condemned and hanged by the side of the road on nothing more than the statement of a neighbor. The nineteenth century saw the development of the coal industry. This brought thousands of impoverished men looking for work. Sadly , the wages were often spent on alcohol and women were often nothing more than punching bags for the drunken abusive husbands as is the case of Dorothy Wilthew who was murdered at Jarrow by her husband after years of abuse. Other cases include; Joseph Hutchinson who murdered his brother and father at Sedgefield later he was found to be insane, a child was kidnapped and later murdered by Isabella Thompson at Bishop Auckland and Maria Fitzmmons was found stabbed to death in Sunderland in 1869 it was to be 13 years before her killer, Thomas Fury, was convicted of the crime . Take a journey into the darker and unknown side of your area as you read Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Durham.

Author : Helen Cox
Publisher : Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1529410363

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Death Awaits in Durham by Helen Cox Pdf

Author : Daniel Allen Hearn
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786495399

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Legal Executions in North Carolina and South Carolina by Daniel Allen Hearn Pdf

Presented in chronological order, this book provides essential details about the 1,152 men and women who were legally put to death in North and South Carolina during the century after the Civil War. Each entry contains information about the criminals themselves and the deeds which cost them their lives. Based almost entirely on original archival materials such as court records, contemporary newspapers, prisoner files, appellate reports, gubernatorial correspondence, etc., a newer picture of the historical record emerges that students of Southern justice will find both revealing and disconcerting.

Author : Martin Dufferwiel
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750957359

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A-Z of Curious County Durham by Martin Dufferwiel Pdf

This book draws upon the varied history and unique heritage of the County Palatine of Durham, an ancient land of saints and warlords. It is a catalogue of curious tales, odd anecdotes and quirky characters from County Durham’s past. Within its pages the reader will discover stories of hauntings, murders and mysterious deaths, while modern-day enigmas – such as the ancient structure that archaeologists remain at a loss to explain, or the lost treasure found at the bottom of the River Wear – are revisited.Inspired in part by the chronicles and compendiums of County Durham’s nineteenth-century historians and antiquarians, this book is a miscellany – at times tragic, at times comic, but always entertaining. And for those for whom the collective subjects hold a perennial fascination, it is ideal for dipping into, perhaps to learn something new about wonderfully curious County Durham.

Author : Steve Fielding
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780750953368

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Hanged at Durham by Steve Fielding Pdf

For decades the high walls of Durham gaol have contained some of the countrys most infamous criminals. Until hanging was abolished in the 1960s it was also the main centre of execution for convicted killers from all over the north east. The history of execution within the walls of Durham Gaol began with the hanging of two labourers side by side in 1869, by the notorious hangman William Calcraft. Over the next ninety years a total of seventy-seven people took the short walk to the gallows - including poisoner Mary Cotton, who for over a century was the worst mass murderer in Great Britain, Gatesheads copycat Jack the Ripper, William Waddell, army deserter Brian Chandler, nineteen-year-old Edward Anderson, who murdered his blind uncle, a Teeside dock worker hanged on Christmas Eve, Carlisle muderer John Vickers, the first man hanged under the 1957 Homocide Act, and a South African sailor who preferred death to ten years in prison. Infamous executionors also played a part in the gaols history - Calcraft, who preferred slow strangulation, Marwood, the pioneer of the 'long drop', bungling Bartholomew Binns, the Billingtons, the Pierrepoint family, and Doncaster hangman Stephen Wade. Steve Fielding's highly readable new book features each of the seventy-five cases in one volume for the first time and is fully illustrated with photographs, news cuttings and engravings. It is bound to appeal to anyone interested in the darker side of County Durhams history.

Author : Nicola Sly,John Van der Kiste
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780752484310

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Somerset Murders by Nicola Sly,John Van der Kiste Pdf

Somerset Murders brings together numerous murderous tales that shocked not only the county but also made headlines throughout the country. They include the cases of Elizabeth and Betty Branch, a mother and daughter who beat a young servant girl to death in Hemington in 1740; 13-year-old Betty Trump, whose throat was cut while walking home at Buckland St Mary in 1823; factory worker Joan Turner, battered to death in Chard in 1829; George Watkins, killed in a bare knuckle fight outside the Running Horse pub in Yeovil in 1843; Constance Kent, who confessed in 1865 to killing her half-brother at Rode in 1860, nearly five years earlier; and elderly landlay, Mrs Emily Bowers, strangled in her bed in Middlezoy in 1947. Nicola Sly and John van der Kiste, co-authors of Cornish Murders in this series, have an encyclopedic knowledge of their subject. Their carefully researched, well-illustrated and enthralling text will appeal to anyone interested in the shady side of Somerset's history.

Author : Nicola Sly,John Van der Kiste
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780752484075

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West Country Murders by Nicola Sly,John Van der Kiste Pdf

Hidden behind the picturesque facade of country lanes and rugged coastlines, quaint villages and busy market towns, the South West counties of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset have witnessed some of the most shocking murder cases in British history. West Country Murders brings together over 30 cases from the authors' previous collections here in one volume. They include stories of those who killed for greed, jealousy and lust, as well as those who committed murder in what a well-known judge once described as 'a gust of passion'. Some of the killers were undoubtedly insane at the time of their crimes; others were almost certainly innocent, yet paid the ultimate price for a murder they did not commit. Some remain unsolved to this day, despite the best efforts of the local constabularies. This book is sure to appeal to all those interested in the shady side of the West Country's history.

Author : Natasha Windham
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781445697871

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Jarrow Murders and Misdemeanours by Natasha Windham Pdf

A look at the dark side of life in Jarrow in the North East of England in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Author : Maureen Anderson
Publisher : Wharncliffe
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-21
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781783408122

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Durham Executions by Maureen Anderson Pdf

Widespread poverty continued to exist in Durham at the start of the twentieth century. Improvement in working and housing conditions was a slow. Wages in dominant industries associated with iron and coal were higher than those who still worked on the land, in service and elsewhere but, for most families, it was a hard existence. The social and economic context of capital crimes are apparent in many of the cases featured in this volume. Alcohol-fuelled jealousy or the need for money was often the prelude to a meeting with the executioner. The voices against capital punishment became louder as the century progressed—but too late for the 55 men hanged at Durham, the last in 1958. Executions took place in private and, though witnessed, were not the great public spectacles of the past—but they provided good copy the newspapers of the day and the hangmen maintained a celebrity status.

Author : Rosemary Horrox,Sarah Rees Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1139429620

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Pragmatic Utopias by Rosemary Horrox,Sarah Rees Jones Pdf

This collection of essays was presented to Barrie Dobson in celebration of his 70th birthday. It will be welcomed by all scholars of pre-modern religion and society. Spanning the artificial divide between medieval and early modern, the contributors - all acknowledged experts in their field - pursue the ways in which men and women tried to put their ideals into practice, sometimes alone, but more commonly in the shared environment of cloister, college or city. The range of topics is testimony to the breadth of Barrie Dobson's own interests, but even more striking are the continuities and shared assumptions across time, and between the dissident and the impeccably orthodox. Taking the reader from a rural anchor-hold to the London of Thomas More, and from the greenwood of Robin Hood to the central law courts, this collection builds into a richly satisfying exploration of the search for perfection in an imperfect world.